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[Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com>]

Folks,

Help!

I have been looking for P. cerasifera "Atropurpurea", also known as 
Pissardi, for two years now. I want a truly purple plant that has normal 
fruit production. Every purple leaf plum that I have found available 
commercially either has limited or no fruit or does not have truly 
purple/reddish leaves for the whole season.

In the Albuquerque area there are hundreds of purple leaf plums that 
bear fruit but no one knows the variety. The ones I've seen are older 
trees. One theory is that the "fruitless" varieties actually begin to 
bear fruit as they get older, possibly due to the influence of a 
rootstock. So even though these appear to be a fruiting variety, I don't 
want to try to propagate them because they may indeed be a fruitless 
variety that won't produce anything for ten years.

So... if you have a tree that you know for certain is 
atropurpurea/PIssardi - if it was sold to you that way or you have some 
other way of verifying the variety - and if you are able and willing to 
propagate it by cuttings or layering, I would be glad to pay you. I just 
don't want to spend ten years nursing along a tree that just "looks 
like" a fruiting purple leaf plum, only to find that it's not.

If anyone has a different suggestion about this, I'd love to hear it. 
Thanks so much!

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Regards,

Jay

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